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Best Kashan Souvenirs and Handicrafts You Can Find

23 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr

Kashan souvenirs are the reminders of a very old and civilized nation. People there are still thriving in their own element and creating new arts and crafts. Kashan is a historical and spectacular city in Isfahan province of Iran. City located in the...

CAMBYSES II, 530 - 522 BC: Heir to Cyrus the Great

1 Oct 2020 12 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

INTRODUCTION Cyrus the Great died in 530 BC whilst fighting in the north-east against the Massagetae. His successor was his eldest son Cambyses, now Cambyses II. He carried out his father’s pre-made plans to conquer Egypt. He had a fleet organise a n...

CYRUS THE GREAT 2, 559 - 530 BC: The Conquest of Babylon, and his Downfall

9 Aug 2020 11 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Founder of a new dynasty, Cyrus's conquests had proven to be rapid, taking out the Medean and Lydian Empires within the span of a few years. His next target would be perhaps the richest and most prestigious city of the east - Babylon - and his ambiti...

LYCURGUS, 8th Century BC: The Reformation of Sparta

21 Jul 2020 33 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

It occurred to me one day that Sparta, although one of the more thinly populated of the Greek states, was evidently the most powerful and most celebrated city in Greece, and I fell to wondering how this could have happened. But when I considered the...

THE PHALANX: Ancient Greek Battle Formation

17 Jul 2020 8 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

The hoplite proved to be an effective citizen soldier of the Greek Poleis, able to defend their homes and cities from the outside world, and indeed from other Greeks. However their panoply alone did not make them the great and iconic soldiers they we...

HESIOD, c.750-650 BC: Poetry of Archaic Greece 1

10 Jul 2020 17 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Greece’s earliest surviving literacy is poetic; it was the 8th century BC that saw the advent of writing in a form we’d recognise today. The earliest, most influential and perhaps the most well known of ancient Greece's writing is that of the Epic, p...

THE ARCHAIC AGE, 800 - 479 BC: Emergence of the City-State

8 Jul 2020 10 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

The Bronze Age Collapse and the subsequent Greek Dark Ages threw the Greek world into a period of little communication, writing, knowledge and scientific advancements. What blossomed from it though was a Greek civilisation of many dialects, cultures...

Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI - For Free On EPIC STORE!!!

25 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Otek

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In the Search For a Lost Civilization. #1. Introduction

5 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marcusantoniu26

This post was published here on 11/02/2018. I, marcusantoniua26, am the author. I am starting this series in order to raise awareness about a topic that has concerned me for a long time. Was there a civilization of which there is little memory? We ha...

Quorans Debate Quatria Theory (NEW)

2 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments conspiracy

(QUORA) - Many users of the popular website Quora have been debating the validity of the Quatria Theory, debunking claims a prehistoric civilization called Quatria once existed in Antarctica.